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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He did say “probably”. He probably couldn’t bring himself to say it without that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What? The Kinect was the one cool idea they ever had.

  A company I worked for made a simple flight sim that you could play standing in front of a video wall spreading your arms like a kid pretending to be a plane and steering like that. That stuff is gold. Shame it never took off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of shitty GDPR-violating site is this? “Accept all tracking” as my only option? Completely unacceptable. And they dare call themselves Eurogamer?

  Anyway, Microsoft hasn’t been a good steward of Minecraft or anything else either. They eventually kill everything they touch. Have they been a good steward of Windows even?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care much about pay differences, as long as everybody can afford to live comfortably and nobody can afford to buy politicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True. Minecraft is not like any other game in several ways. It can be a lot of different things. But one of those is both massive multiplayer and online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are massive Minecraft servers handling hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously, but most are small of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the 80s for you. Big on awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think any CRPG is RP heavy. I don’t think it’s possible for a computer game to roleplay. Well, maybe if they integrate LLMs? But generally, any RP happens entirely in the player’s head.

  I think CRPGs that are sometimes seen as RP heavy, are just very well written. That’s not the same thing, although I suppose it’s possible for good writing to inspire RP in the player. But that depends as much on the player as it depends on the writing.

  I enjoyed the original VTMB a lot, mostly because of its excellent atmosphere.